St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Walnut Creek, California) - List of Vicars and Rectors

List of Vicars and Rectors

1. The Rev. James P. Trotter, vicar 1939–1944, rector 1944–1946):

   Born Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, son of Frank Forster Trotter and Edyth Alice James; graduate of the University of California and General Theological Seminary in New York; married to Ann Louise Alger;

2. The Rev. David Warwick Cranbrook Graham, rector 1946–1951:

   Born St. Louis, Missouri, son of David B. Graham and Helen Cranbrook; graduate of Occidental College, the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, and Virginia Theological Seminary; married to Margaret Ellen Wilson;

3. The Rev. Wilfred Haughton Hodgkin, rector 1951–1960:

   Born Berkeley, California; son of the Rev. Wilfred Reginald Haughton Hodgkin and Mary Hewitt Parsons; graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and the Church Divinity School of the Pacific; married to Ann Barratt Hall;

4. The Rev. Alfred Burdon Seccombe, rector 1961–1977:

   Born Beverly, Massachusetts; son of Will Seccombe and Mary Josephine Fowler; graduate of the University of Virginia and Virginia Theological Seminary; married to Elizabeth Clagett Welbourn;

5. The Rev. Stephen Dexter McWhorter, rector 1978–1987:

   Born Charleston, West Virginia; son of Joseph Clinton McWhorter and Joan Cottrell; graduate of West Virginia University, the University of Pittsburgh, and the Episcopal Theological School;

6. The Rev. Robert Eugene Reynolds, rector 1989–2005:

   Born Prescott, Arizona; son of Fred Kilby Reynolds and Miriam Evelyn; graduate of Arizona State University and the Church Divinity School of the Pacific; married to Elizabeth Walters;

7. The Rev. Martha Sylvia Ovalle Vásquez, rector 2006 – present:

   Born San Antonio, Texas; daughter of Joe F. Vasquez and Celia Ovalle; graduate of the Oblate School of Theology and the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest; married to Bill Ennis.